Discussion2 Update

Today I rolled it out for all users on use Perl. You need to check the box either in your user preferences (select "Slashdot's New Discussion System" under "Discussion Style") or activate the checkbox in the huge box at the top of a discussion.

Much of this will work without JavaScript, but much of it will not. So, you non-JavaScript users are warned.

Read the FAQ entry for more information, and feel free to comment here.

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to
use the classic discussion system instead. If you login, you can remember this preference.

To get from your "Why would you need it?" comment to my "Where did the 'parent comment' link go?" Apparently it came back, though, shortly after I asked the question. It just seems to not be there immediately after you post a comment.

--J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers

The buttons are for changing threshold (what comments you see) and highlight threshold (whether comments you see are "full" or "oneline"), based on score of the comments. Since almost all use Perl comments are Score:1, this is not very useful here.